Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
Document Type
Article
Version
publisher_pdf
Publication Date
11-2019
Abstract
Bronson Healthcare Group performs quarterly pressure injury and restraint audits as part of the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). The chart abstraction portion of the audit previously required nurses to manually abstract 31 data points. To save time and cost, we used Lean and PDSA process improvement tools to automate the chart abstraction portion of the audit, reducing the number of data points requiring manual abstraction to 2. We validated the automated abstraction by comparing it to abstractions done manually by the audit nurses. We found that an automated process has the potential to reduce the impact of human error inherent in manual abstraction.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Knight, Jefton; Gevaart, Melinda; Wagner, Stephanie; Bush, Shellie; and Miller, JeanAnn, "Pressure Injury and Restraint Prevalence Surveys: Saving Time and Dollars for Patient Care by Automating Manual Chart Abstraction" (2019). Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement. 68.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/ichita_transactions/68